“The core of any business is to earn money. You have not done your job well until you find a stranger who is willing to open his/her wallet to give you money for the service/products that you are offering.”

2. Bhavish Aggarwal, Ola

“Go out and start up. It is the hardest thing to do. For me it was very hard. When I started, my parents thought I was going to become a travel agent. It was very hard to convince them that I was not.”

3. Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal

“Scale is important for a startup. Think big, but take one day at a time.”

4. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm

“Be so sharp that you cut”

5. Naveen Tewari, InMobi

“Entrepreneurship is all about how confident you are in changing something, because most of the people will not accept that change so go ahead and learn it.”

6. Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms

“It is extremely important to build something that a 100 people absolutely love using rather than make something that a 1000 people would just, kind of, like.”

7. Shashank ND, Practo

“The goal has never been about being an entrepreneur or starting a company. It has always been about solving a problem we deeply care about.”

8. Deepinder Goyal, Zomato

“The fundamental model of our business is that in mature markets we should make profits and they shouldn’t need any more outside money to grow.”

9. Kunal Shah, FreeCharge

“If you fully accept the worst that can ever happen in your journey, fear won’t ever be an obstacle in starting-up.”

10. Rahul Yadav, Housing

“Life’s purpose is to be happy! So if you are happy, you are successful in life”